Rocks IMPROVED, COMPRISING certain poetical MEDITATIONS, Extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Quality of rocks; a barren and harsh soil; yet a fruitful, and delightful subject of Meditation. By William PRYNNE, late Exile, and close Prisoner in Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy.  Psal. 18. 2. 31. 46. 2 Sam. 22. 2. 3. 32. The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I will trust, my buckler, and the horn of my Salvation, and my high tower my Saviour, thou savest me from violence. Who is a rock save our God? The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock, and let the God of my Salvation be exalted. Psal. 40. 1, 2, 3. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry: He brought me also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings, &c. 
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Rocks IMPROVED. Comprising certain poetical Meditations, extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Qualities of rocks; a Barren and Harsh soil, yet a fruitful and delightful Subject of Meditation.  

THE proem.  

WHen from the lofty 
* Mount-Orguil.  Castle I espy  
The ragged Rocks, which round about it lie;  
My Working thoughts begin from thence to raise  
Some 
a Psal. 77. 12. Psal. 19 14. Psal. 143. 5. Psal 104. 34.  Meditations, to their maker's Praise,  
And mine own Profit: which my heart may warm,  
Yea mount to Heaven, and vain fancies charm.    

Meditations of the first rank, Parallelling Christ and rocks together.  

ANd first, the rocks do lively represent  
A complete Image, full of sweet content,  
Of Christ our rock; sith that both They and He  
In Name and Nature fitly do agree.  
Are they called rocks? So he in sacred Writ  
A 
b 1 Cor. 10 4. Psal. 18. 2. 31. 46. Ps. 28. 1 Ps. 21. 3. Psa. 42. 4. Ps. 62. 2. 7. Psal. 71. 3. Ps. 89. 26. Psal. 92. 15. Ps. 94. 22. Psal. 95. 1. Deut. 32. 31. 2 Sam. 22. 2. 3. 32. 47.  rock is styled, in these regards most fit.   

1.  
The Stony rocks no other Father know  
But God who made them, from whose 
c Psal. 148. 5. Ioh. 3. 3.  word they flow  
So Christ (both God and Man) no Father knows  
But 
d Ioh. 5. 17. 18. Ioh. 8. 16. 18. 19 28. 38. 41. 49. 54.  God eternal; from whose loins he flows  
By such a 
e Ioh. 1. 14. c. 3. 16. Act. 13. 33. Heb. 1. 5. c. 5. 5.  Generation as exceeds  
men's shallow Thoughts, and in them wonder breeds.   

2.  
Rocks are the 
f Mat. 7. 24. 25. Luk. 6. 47. 48.  firmest ground whereon to lay,  
And found such buildings as shall not decay.  
But last and stand in spite of Floods, storms, wind,  
Which may beat on them, yet no entrance find,  
So 
g Isa. 28. 16. Mat. 16. 18. 1 Pet. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Psal. 118 22. Act. 4. 11. 1 Co. 3. 11. Ephes. 2. 20 21.  Christ's the only rock, the tried stone  
On which the Church is built: On Him alone  
Our souls so safe, fast, firmly, founded lie,  
That they shall stand for all eternity  
Unshaken, undemolisht, maugre all  
The 
h Mat. 7. ●4. 25. c. 16. 18. Rom. 8. 35. to 39 2 Pet. 1. 10. Psal. 125. 1. 2 Cor. 4. 7, 8, 9 1 Cor. 10. 13.  storms, Flands, Winds, that on them beat & fall  
Through Men or devil's Malice: happy they  
Who on this firm rock, all their buildings lay.   

3.  
Rocks yield the sweetest 
i Psal. 81. 16. Deut. 32. 13.  Honey, Men to feed:  
The 
k 2 Cor. 1. 3. 4, 5, 6. Psal. 71. 21. Cant. 2. 5. Isa. 40. 1. c. 51. 3. c. 51. 1. 2.  sweetest honey comforts, joys proceed  
From Christour Rock, Mens drooping souls to cheer  
And sweeten all sour Crosses which they hear.   

4.  
All precious Stones, and Jewels Rocks do breed:  
All gems and pearls of Grace from 
l Ioh. 1. 16. Rev. 3. 18. Col. 2. 2 39  Christ proceed  
The first, our Bodies deck, but for a space;  
The last, our 
m Psal. 45. 9 13. 14. 1 Pet. 3. 3, 4, 5. 1 Tim 2. 9 10. Cant. c. 1. to 8.  Souls, with an eternal Gra●e.  
The first, in man's eyes are a lovely sight;  
The last in God's eyes makes us shine most bright.  
O let us then, these Jewels only prize,  
Which make us 
n Ezech. 16. 8. 10 15. Cant. 2. 1, 2. c. 4. 1. 2. &c. c. 5. 1. to 8.  comely in God's sacred eyes.   

5.  
The richest Mines of Silver, Gold, Tin, Lead,  
brass, Copper, in the wombs of 
o Deut. 8. 9 Iob. 28. 2.  rocks are bred:  
Whence not digged out with pains, they useless lie  
And none are bettered, or enriched thereby.  
Thus all the Mines, and Treasures of God's Grace  
Are 
p Col. 2. 2. 3. 9 Ioh. 1. 15. 16 Ephes. 3. 8. 18. 19  hid in Christ, as in their proper place.  
Yet none do happy, rich, or wealthy grow  
By these hid Treasures, though they overflow;  
But those who take much 
q Prov. 2. 3, 4, 5 Mat. 13, 44, 45. 46. Rev. 3 18. c. 22. 17. Ioh. 1. 15 16. Mat. 7. 7. 8. c. 21. 22. Iam. 5. 7. 8. Rom. 8. 24. 25.  pains to dig them thence  
With Prayers, tears, Faith, Hope, and Patience.  
O let us then be ever drawing oar  
Out of our Rock Christ, in whom there's such store  
Of richest golden Mines, that all 
r Rev. 3. 18. c. 22. 17. Is. 55. 1. 2. 3 Ioh. 7. 37.  who will  
May there their souls, and bags for ever fill.   

6.  
The purest, best, and pleasantst waters spring  
Out of 
s Deut. 8. 15 Psal. 105. 41. Psa. 114. 8. Isa. 48. 21. Ps. 1●4. 10, 11, 12, 13.  rocks sides; which sweet refreshment bring  
To Man and Beast, whose Thirst they quench and stay,  
Their bodies bathe, and wash their filth away.  
Thus from our rock Christ, and his pierced side,  
Such peerless streams of 
t Ioh. 19 34. 1 Ioh. 5. 6. 8. c. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5. Heb. 9 14. Eph 5. 26. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Eph. 1. 5. 2. 13. Heb. 1● 19 c. 13. 22. 2●. 1 Pet. 1. 19  Blood and Water glide,  
(To save, bathe, cleanse, refresh all broken Hearts,  
And quench hell flames, with Satan's, fiery Darts:)  
As far surpass the purest streams that flow,  
From all the rocks, or fountains here below.  
And now (Methinks) 
v Exod. 17. 5. 6. Num. 2●. 10. Deut. 8. 15. Neh. 9 15. Psal. 78. 16. 20. Ps. 105. 41. Psal. 114. 8. Isa. 48. 21.  the Rock in wilderness  
Whence streams of waters gushed to redress,  
And quench the people's Thirst, when Moses Rod  
It smote, and pierced by command from God.  
(Yea every Rock whence crystal waters spring)  
A lively 
x 1 Cor. 10. 4.  Picture was, and is to bring  
Our rock Christ to our minds, and to present  
Him to our eyes, and Hearts with great content:  
From whose pierced Hands and side with nails and spear,  
Whole 
y Joh. 19 34. 1 Ioh. 5. 6. 8. 1 Joh. 1. 7. Rev. 1. 5. c. 22. 17 Ioh. 7. 37. Eph. 5. 26. ●●ay 55. 1. 2.  streams of precious Blood, and waters clear  
Did sweetly flow, God's wrath to quench, allay,  
His people's Thirst, and wash their sins away.  
We need not then a Crucitixe, to bring  
Christ to our minds, sith every rock and Spring  
That flows from thence, doth in more 
z 1. Cor. 10. 4. Gal. 3. 1.  lively wife  
Present Christ and his Passion to our Eyes;  
Let Papists then behold their painted sticks;  
Each rock to me shall be a crucifix,  
As 
a 1. Cor. 10. 4  God hath made it: and shall teach me more,  
Than all the Pictures of the Roman Whore;  
Which are mere 
b Psal. 135. 15. 16. 17. 18.  idol, heathenish vanities,  
And 
c Jer. 1●. 8. ● H●●. 2.18 Zech. 1●. 2. ●●●. 41.29.  teach nought else, but Errors, sins, and Lies.   

7.  
Rock●s yield a pleasant 
d 〈…〉  shade against the heat,  
The scorching Sun and Storms that on Men beat;  
Which sweet Refreshment to the weary brings,  
And cools them more than any limpid Springs.  
Christ our rock is a sweet refreshing 
e Isa● 25. 4.4.c 4. ●. Cant. 2.3 Psal. 17.8 Ps. ●6. 7. Ps 57 1. Psal. 91 1. Hose● 14.7.  shade  
Against all heats that scorch, all sins that lad●.  
His Saints; whose weary sin-burnt souls can gain  
No 
f Mat. 11. 23. 29. 2 Thess. 1. 7.  rest but in his shade, which ends their pain;  
Yea fills them with such 
g Isa. 35 2. 1●. Rom. 14. 17. c. 15. 13. Gal. 5 22. 1 Pet. 1. 8.  Peace, joy, cheerfulness,  
That they an Heaven here on Earth possess●.  
O let us still abide in this blessed shade,  
Wherewith our souls are eased, and happy made.   

8.  
The Holes and cliffs in rocks to which Men 
h 1 Sam. 13.6 c. 23.3.4 Judg. 2●. 4●.47 I●a. 2. 1●.19.21c.7.19.c.57.8. Jer. 1●.1●. Rev. 6.19.16 Jer. 13.4.  fly  
In times of Danger, for Security;  
Paint out the Holes, cliffs, wounds in Christ's pierced 
i Joh. 19 ●4 Isa. 15 4. 5. Ps. 27. ●. Ps. 14 3. 9 Cant. 2. 14.  side  
feet, Hands, wherein our souls may safely hide  
Themselves against all storms that D●●●●, Hell,  
World, flesh, or sin can raise up, them to quell.  
O let us to these blessed Holes, cliffs fly  
For Shelter, and in them both live and die.  
Yea let each Hole and Clift which we espy  
In Rocks, present Christ's wounds, Holes, to our Eye,  
And so imprint them in our Hearts and mind,  
That they may still sweet Solace in them find.   

9  
Rocks 〈…〉 
k M●●. 7. 2●. 2●. Job 6. 12. c. 19.21.  w●are or waste, but last and know  
N●●hing●s, while Things, Seas still ebb, and flow  
About them. So our rock Christ lasts for aye  
Without ●ll Change, both 
l Heb. 1●. ●. Ps●● 12. 2●. 27. Mal. 3. ●. Jam. 1.17 Rev. 1.8.17.18 Heb. 1.11.12.  yesterday, today,  
And still the s●●● for all eternity,  
When all things else decay, wax, old and die.  
Friends, P●●●nts, Kindred, G●●ds, Lands, Cities, States,  
Kings, kingdoms, yet the world, have 
m Psal. 1 2.12.25.26. Heb. 1. 11.1● Isa. 2.22. ●. 2●. ●3. c. ●. ●. 7. Dan. ●. and 5. and ●. & ●1. & 12.2 Chron. 3●.  all their Fates,  
Falls, Chang●●, Periods; and do pass away;  
Whiles Christ our rock stands same at the 
n Heb. 13. ●.  same stay.  
No change, ●g● 
o Rom. ●. 9. 1●. Rev. 1.8.17.18.  death can on him s●●●e, or light,  
He still ●ontinues in the selfsame plight,  
O let us then make Him ●ur only 
p Psal. 73.25. Ps●●● 57  stay,  
Friend, Tr●●sure, Portion, who thus lasts for aye,  
Then when all Friends, helps, stays, Hopes else fail, He  
Alon● 
q Psal. 27 ●● Eph. 1. 23. Col. 3.11. 1 Cor. 15. 28. Psal. ●. 1.  more than all these to us will be.  
Oh prize Him most who doth all else excel,  
And still remains when they bid us farewell.   

10.  
Rocks are to Men the 
r Num▪ ●● 21. Judg. 15. ●. c. 20. 25 47. 1 Sam 23. 25. Ps. 94. 22. 1 Sam 13. 6. c. 24. 2. Isa. 2. 1●. 19 21 c. 17 19 c. 3●. 16. Je. 4. 29. c. 16. 16. c. 48 28. c 49. 16. c. 51. 25. Obed. ●. 4. Rev 6. 15. 16.  strongest, safest Fence,  
F●rt, R●fuge in all Dangers: and from hence  
Most Castles, towns, Forts on them settled are,  
Which guard whole kingdoms, both in Peace and war;  
To these men in all places us● to fly  
For aid and shelter in extremity,  
And is not Christ our rock, the strongest Mound,  
The safest 
s Psal. 18. 2. 21. 4● Ps. 3●. 3▪ Psa. 6 1. 2. Ps. 94 22. Deut. 32. 4.  refuge of his Saints? who found  
Their Forts, strength, fafty upon Him, and fly  
To him alone in all their misery?  
Where they in safety live, and dare defy  
Both Men and Devils with security.  
O let us then on Him alone repose  
Our souls, who will 
t 1 Pet. 4. 19 2 Tim. 4. 1●. Ioh. ●●. 28. 29.  protect them from all foes.   

11.  
Doves, Eagles, coneys, Fish in 
v Cant. 2. 14 Pro. 3●. 26. Numb. 24. 21. Job 39 28. 29. Psal. 1●4. 1●. Jer. 48. 28.  rocks do breed,  
Build, dwell and hide themselves: Christ's chosen seed  
In 
x Joh. 15. 1. to ●. Cant. 2. 14. isaiah. 25. 4. Ps. 32. 7. Ps. 119 11●. Isa. 32. 2.  Him alone breed, build, dwell, live, and ●ide  
From all such perils as shall them betide.  
Let this their wisdom teach all others' grace  
In this Rock Christ, their Strength, Nests, Homes to place.   

12.  
rocks have no outward 
y Isa. 2. 21. Ezech. 26. 4.  form nor comeliness.  
To make them lovely. 
z Isa. 53. 2. 3. Psa. 22. 14. 15. 16. 17. Isa. 52. 14.  Scripture is express  
That Christ our rock had none, whence most 
a Isa. 53. 3. Mark. 9 12. Ps. 11●. 22. Mat. 21. 42. Act. 4. 11. Joh. 1. 1●. 11.  despise  
Him whiles they view Him but with carnal Eyes.  
And yet as rocks, though ragged, vile and bare  
In outward form, contain within them rare  
And precious Jewels, Stones, Mines, of all Kinds;  
So though our rock, Christ, unto carnal Minds  
In outward show seems base; yet in Him lie  
The 
b Ephes 3. 8. Col. 1. 16. 17. 18. c. 2. 9 1●. Eph. 1. 23. Ioh. 1. 16.  richest Treasures, Mines, Gems, hid from eye:  
O judge not then by 
c Sam. 16. 7.  outside, since corpse skin  
And rags oft times have Treasures, pearls 
d Jam. 2. 5. Psal. 45. 1●. 1 Pet. 3. 4. Rom. 2. 28. 29.  within,  
Whiles guilded Outsides (like a 
e Mat. 2●. 27. 〈◊〉.  pa●●ted Grave)  
Nought else but Dust, dross, Dung, within them have.   

13.  
Rocks fence the Land against the raging Seas,  
Which else would swallow it with speed, and ease.  
So 
f Mat. 16. 18. c. 28. 2●. Ioh. 10. 2●. 29. Rom. ●. 35. to 39 Psal. ●21. 1. to 8. Psal. 125. 1. 2. 3.  Christ defends his Church and feeble sheep,  
'gainst Deviils, Tyrants, Wolves; who else would sweep  
Them clean away, and speedily devour,  
If not pr●t●cted by his Mighty Power.  
O give Him then the praise of this sweet Grace  
Who thus preserves us safe in every place.   

14.  
Rocks oft times Harbours make for Ships to ride  
In safety both from pirates, storms, winds, Tide.  
So Christ our rock, an 
g Jer. 16. 19 Psal. 18. 1. 2. Psal. 9 9 Psal. 46. 1. 2. 3. Psal. 62. 7. 8. Isa. 25. 4. Heb. 6. 1●. Psal. 60. 1●  Harbour is to all,  
Who fly to Him, and for help on him call  
In all their Troubles; where they may repose  
Themselves in safety, maugre storms, or Foes.   

15.  
rocks through the world near hand dispersed lie  
For Men to 
h Judg. 15. 8. c. 2. 45. 1 Sam. 1●. 6. c. 23. 25. c. 24. 2. Isa. 2. 1●. 19 21.  fly too, in extremity.  
Christ in 
i Mat 28. 2●. Ps. 34. 18. Psal. 145. 18. Rom. 1● 6 7. 8. Act. 10. 35. Psal. 18. 1. 2.  all places is still near at Band,  
A rock to shield, and guard his chosen Band,  
In all their Dangers, and perplexities,  
Thrice happy he who in him fenced lies.   

16.  
God well accepted in most grateful wise,  
And by some wonder graced the Sacrifice  
Which holy Men upon bare 
k Judg. 6. 20. 21. c. 13. 19 20.  rocks did lay,  
And offer to him; not on Altars gay:  
Thus God those Praises, alms, tears, Prayers, cries,  
(A Christians best and only 
l Psal. 51. 17. Heb. 13. 15. 1 Per. 2. 5. Phil. 2. 17. c. 4. 8. Ps. 107. 22. Rom. 12. 1.  Sacrifice)  
Doth most regard, and them alone approve  
Which laid on 
m Heb. 13. 15. Col. 3. 17. Joh. 13. 13. 14. c. ●6. 24. 26.  Christ our rock, do from Him move,  
And mount to Heaven 
n Rev. 5. 8. c. 8. 34.  sweetened with the fume  
Of his rich odours, which their stink consume.   

17.  
Altars of old were built on 
o Judg. 6. 26. c. 13. 19 20.  rocks; to show  
That we no 
p Heb. 13. 10. Rev. 16. 9 c. 8. 3. c. 9 13.  Altar else but Christ should know;  
And that all Altars, Offerings must proceed  
From Him, or else they'll stand us in no steed.  
Those Altars than are built but on the 
q Mat. 7. 26. 27. Luk. 6. 47.  Sand,  
And sure to fall, which on Christ do not stand;  
As none do now, sith 
r Heb. 7. 12. 13. 14. to 28. c. 8. & 9 & 10. c. 13. 10. 13. 1 Cor. 9 13. 14. c. 10. 16. to 22. c. 11. 24. to 37. Col 2. 10. to 22.  Christ's death overthrew  
All Altars but himself, both old and new.   

18.  
No lazy, fearful Persons can ascend  
steep Craggie 
s Amos. 6. 12. 1 Sam. 14. 4. 13. Jer. 4. 29.  rocks, but only those who bend  
Their minds, Force, Might thereto, who hardly get  
Upon them but with earnest pain and sweat,  
Nay falls, ofttimes, and Bruises: so all those  
Who 
t Mat. 25. 26. Rom. 12. 11. Heb. 6. 12. Pro. 21. 25.  sl●athfull are, with Christ can never close:  
A Rock so Narrow, craggy, steep, Sublime  
That, none, with Ease, with pains, 
v Mat. 7. 13. 14. Luk. 13. 24.  few can Him climb,  
Meeting with 
x Joh. 16. 33. Act. 14. 22. 1 Thes. 3. 4.  many rubs, Falls, Bruises, ere  
They climb upon Him, and a building rear.  
O then let all who think this rock to mount  
Of Paines, Sweat, falls, Rubs, crosses, make 
y Luk. 14. 28. to. 34.  account. 
(z) Deut. 6. 5. Luk. ●3. 24.   
And then address themselves with 
z Deut. 6. 5. Luk. 13. 24.  all their might  
Unto this work, which will their pains requite.   

19  
Rocks are too Hard, on which to sleep secure:  
And they must 
a Mat. 24. 4●. c. 26. 41. Mar. 13. 37. Luk. 21. 36.  watch, not sleep whom Christ keeps sure.  
Those who intend on this rock safe to lie,  
Must 
b Rom. 13. 14. Luk. 22. 46. 1 Thes. 5. 6. 7. Eph. 5. 14.  Shake off sleep, with all security:  
Watching and 
c 2 Thes. 5. 17. Eph. 6. 18. Rom. 12. 12. Act. 6. 4. Luk. 21. 36.  praying always night and day,  
Lest world, flesh, devil them surprise and slay.   

20.  
Rocks in, or near the Seas, and waters are;  
And do their heads, most part 
d Ps. 40. 2. Ps. 61. 2.  above them bear:  
So Christ, our rock, on earth did oft reside  
Near to the Sea; yea, on it, walk and ride:  
Lifting his Head above the proudest Seas,  
And calming all their raging waves with ease:  
To show that He was 
e Mat. 4. 13. 15. 18. c. 8. 24. 26. 27. c. 13. 1. c. 14. 24. 25. 26. c. 15. 29. Mar. 2. 13. c. 3. 7. c. 4. 1. c. 5. 1. 21. c. 7. 3. Luk. 6. 17. c. 21. 15. Joh. 6. 1. 16. 18. c. 21. 1.  Supreme Lord of all  
The world, when Seas and floods before Him fall; 
(f) Mat. 8. 27. Mar. 4. 41. Luk. 8. 25. Mat. 14. 33.   
Yea, prove a footstool for his feet to tread,  
And 
g Ma●. 14. 25. 26. Mar. 6. 48. 49. Joh. 6. 19  walk upon in safety, without dread.  
All other rocks in waters sink, Christ sails,  
swims, walks upon, and over them prevails.   

21.  
Most, ragged rocks contemn, neglect, forsake,  
Until some 
h Judg. 15. 8. c. 20. 45. 1 Sam. 13. 6. c. 24. 2. c. 23. 25. 26. Isa. 2. 10. 19 21. c. 7. 19 Jer. 4. 29.  Dangers force them to betake  
Themselves unto them for security,  
And then they praise, and highly magnify  
Those rocks they held before in such disgrace,  
As the most strong, sweet, best, and safest place.  
So, most this rock Christ quite 
i Isa. 53. 3. Psal. 118. 22. Act. 4. 11. Mar. 9 12. Joh. 1. 10 11.  neglect, despise,  
Desert, abandon till 
k Mat. 11. 28. 29. 2 Chron. 33. 12. Hos. 5. 15. Psa. 78. 34. 35. 36. Isa. 55. 1. 2. Zeph. 3. 12. 1 Tim. 5. 5.  extremities  
Enforce them to Him, to protect and free.  
Them from the evils which they fear and flee.  
And then no place so sweet, safe, delicate  
As this our rock before left desolate.  
But yet as those who unto rocks do fly,  
Not out of love, but mere necessity,  

l Psal. 78. 34. 35. 36. 37. Jer. 3. 10. Exod. 8. & 9 & 10. Judg 2. 17. 18. 19 c. 3. 10. to 16. c. 4. 1. to 6. c. 6. 1. to 11.  For sake them quite, where as their Dangers end;  
So, such whom fears, or perils force, and send  
(Not sincere love) to Christ our rock, 
l Psal. 78. 34. 35. 36. 37. Jer. 3. 10. Exod. 8. & 9 & 10. Judg 2. 17. 18. 19 c. 3. 10. to 16. c. 4. 1. to 6. c. 6. 1. to 11.  away  
Depart from Him, and will no longer stay,  
When as their Dangers, Troubles, fears are gone,  
And most unkindly leave Him all alone.  
Hence may all Popelings learn, that Multitude,  
Christ's, or his church's truth doth 
m Mat. 7. 12. 13. 14. c. 20. 16. c. 22. 24. Luk. 13. 23. 24. 1 Pet. 20. 21. Rev. 3. 4. 1 King. 22. 6. to 20.  ill conclude.   

22.  
rocks humble are, and never upwards tend,  
Mount, swell, but 
n Exod. 15. 5. Nah. 1. 6.  down their Heads and Motions bend.  
So Christ our rock, did 
o Mat. 11. 29 Phil. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. Joh. 6. 15. 16. Eph. 4. 9 Heb. 2. 7. 9 Zech. 9 9  humble and abase  
Himself, but never sought high state or Place;  
Moving from Heaven down to Earth below,  
To quench all Pride, and make men humble grow.  
Who then dares swell with Pride, or haughtiness  
When Christ, himself did thus so low depress;  
Though 
p Phil. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. Tim. 6. 15. Rev. 17. 14. c. 19 6. Deut. 10. 17.  King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, most High,  
Nay second Person in the Deity?   

23.  
High Rocks a pleasant 
q Num. 23. 9 Iob. 39 28. 29.  Prospect yield, whence Men  
Sea, Land, nay Heaven may the better Ken.  
And with delight see farther, and far more  
Than they on lower ground beheld before.  
Thus men high mounted on our Rock, Christ, view  
From thence, with most delight, such 
r 2 Cor. 5. 16. 17. 18. 1 Cor. 2. 7. to 16. Act. 26. 18. 2 Cor. 3. 18. Col. 3. 1. 2. 3. Phil. 3. 7. 8. 9 20. Eph. 3. 8. 9 20. Eph. 3. 8. 9 10.  pleasant, new  
And glorious Sights of God, and things above  
As rap their souls, and make them sick of Love.  
Thence they behold all Earthly things below  
With other Eyes, and both discern and know  
Them to be vile, base 
s Eccles. 1. 2. 14. 1. Ioh. 2. 15. 16. 17. Phil. 3. 7. 8, 9 Prov. 23. 4, 5.  dross, mere vanity;  
And very small when viewed thus from on high.   

24.  
When 
t Pro. 30. 19  Serpents upon rocks do creep or glide  
They leave no tract, way, steps, that can be spied.  
When that old Serpent Satan crept upon  
Our rock Christ, with his strong Temptation,  
He 
v Mat. 4. 1. to 10. Lu. 4. 1. to. 10. Ioh. 14. 30. Heb. 4. 15.  nought prevailed, and no print, step, trace,  
Of him or his Assaults on Him took place.   

25.  
When Christ our rock for forty days and nights  
Hid fasted, than the devil Him incites  
To 
x Mat. 4. 2. 3. 4. Luk. 4. 2. 3. 4.  turn stones into Bread, himself to feed;  
Which He denied, though then he bread did need:  
Yet of his tender Mercy to mankind,  
And their poor souls, which are with hunger pined,  
He daily turns a rock (himself) to 
y Joh. 6. 32. to 64.  Bread  
Of life, wherewith their hungry souls are fed.  
Yea, rather than his chosen, Bread shall need,  
The rocks and Stones their souls shall fat and feed,  
Nay feast with those sweet wafers, which their mind,  
By 
z Psal. 77. 12. Ps. 143. 5.  Meditations doth within them find.  
Let then our Hearts be right, we need not fear  
A 
a Psal. 34. 9 10. Psa. 37: 25. 1 King. 17. 6: 7: 11: 12▪ 13:  want of Bread, Food, them to feed, feast, cheer,  
Since every rock and Ston's a Magazine  
To feed, store, feast them still with Bread Divine.   

26.  
When God himself of his abundant Grace  
Showed forth his glorious Presence, and blessed Face  
To Moses and Elias; he them placed  
In 
b Exod. 33. 21. 22. 23. 1 King. 19 9 to 16.  cliffs or Caves of rocks, and there them graced  
With this grand Honour, Him to view. When we  
God's sweetest 
c Mat. 3. 17. Joh. 1. 18. c. 6. 46. c. 14. 7. 9  Face and Presence long to see,  
Our souls to ravish; we must stand, and hide  
Within the cliffs of our Rock, Christ's peirc'd side  
(Which these rocks do but 
d 1 Cor. 10. 4.  figure,) the sole place  
Wherein we may with Comfort view God's face.  
O let our souls in these cliffs dwell and stay,  
Where God his 
e Joh. 14. 7. 9 2 Cor. 5. 19 20.  Face and presence doth display,  
In such sweet manner, and such lively sort,  
As will our souls with Love and Joy transport.   

27.  
Rough ragged rocks and Stones, cause Men to 
f Isa. 8. 14. 15 Luk. 2. 34. Ro. 9 33. 1 Pet. 2. 8. 2 Chron. 25 12. Zech. 12. 3 Psal. 141. 6.  fall  
And stumble on them; yea, oft times withal,  
Themselves to bruise, maim, break, and hurt so sore,  
That they expire therewith, and rise no more;  
Thus Christ becomes to many a wicked one  
A 
g Isa. 8. 14. 15. Luk 2. 34 Rom. 9 33. 1 Pet. 2. 8.  rock effensive, and a stumbling stone  
Who on Him stumble, slip, and headlong fall,  
And dash themselves in pieces therewithal.  
O then beware how we against Him hit  
spurn, stumble, who to 
() Luk. 2. 34. Mat. 21. 44.  shivers will us split.   

28.  
Some 
h Deut. 32. 13. Joh. 29. 6.  rocks of flint yield softest oil, to suage,  
And supple hardest swellings, when they rage.  
Heale wounds, and Ulcers; supplest oils of Grace,  
Which 
i Ezech. 11. 19 c. 36. 26.  soften hard Hearts in a little space;  

k Mat. 11. 28 Psal. 41. 4. Mal. 4. 2. Rev. 22. 2.  assuage our pain, our Aches, wounds, sores cure,  
proceed from Christ, a rock most firm and sure.  
Lord give us store of this soft oil, that we  
Our Hearts made soft, our wounds quite healed may see.   

29.  
The Mines and Treasures which in rocks hid lie,  

l Isa. 2. Z.  exceed man search and full discovery.  
The Sacred hidden Treasures which do dwell  
In Christ our rock, are so 
m Ephes. 3. 8. 10. 19 20. 1 Cor. 2. 9 Col. 2. 3. 9 c. 1. 19  unsearchable;  
Vast, boundless, endless, that they far exceed  
Saints largest thoughts and in them wonder breed.  
O let us still contemplate more and more  
The 
n Eph. 3. 18. 19 Psal. 62. 2. 6. 7. Psal. 73. 25.  height, depth, length, breadth, of this searchlesse store.  
To fill our souls with sweetest joys, and make  
Them for the Love of these, all else forsake.   

30.  
rocks are most Patient and do not 
o Joh 6. 12. Jer. 23. 29.  complain  
Cry, stir, though Tempests, Seas, Winds, Axes, Rain,  
Nay Sledges beat upon them, and them bruise,  
Break, hew, cleave, pierce, cut, lance, & much misuse.  
So Christ our rock, endured 
p Isa. 53. 7. Mat. 26. 63. c. 27. 12. Act. 8. 32. 2 Pet. 2. 23. Heb. 12. 2. Rev. 19  patiently,  
His cross, wrongs, sufferings, Death without all cry,  
Complaint, resistance; like a sheep before  
Her shearer, which doth never bleat, stir, roar.  
O let all Christians now at last from 
q 1 Pet. 2. 19 to 25. Rev. 12. 12. Rom. 13. 10. Jam. 1. 3. 4.  hence  
Learn to bear crosses with like Patience.   

31.  
The 
r Mat. 7. 25. Luk. 6. 47. 48.  Floods, winds, storms against the rocks oft beat;  
They still exposed are to Cold, or heat:  
Sometimes the Seas surround & drown them quite  
And oft the ye and snow them hide from sight:  
So Christ on earth 
s 1 Pet. 2. 12. 23. Heb. 2. 9 10. 18. c. 4. 15. c. 12. 2. Matth. 4, 2. to 10. c. 27. and 28. Mat 15. & 16. Luk. 23. & 24. Act. 2. 23. to 37. c. 3. 13. to 22. c. 4. 26. 27. 28.  assaulted was with winds;  
floods, Tempests, heat, Cold, Crosses of all kinds,  
Which for a time did hide, immerge, at last,  
Quite overwhelm Him, till the storm was past.  
What Christian then can think himself 
t Joh. 15. 20. Mat. 10. 22. 23. 24. 25.  secure  
From storms, Winds, Floods, sith Christ did them endure?   

32.  
When Christ gave up the Ghost, the (
v Mat. 27. 51  rocks did rent,  
The Death of this chief rock for to lament:  
Yea, to bear witness of his Deity,  
Who though he died, made 
x 1 King. 19 11. Nah. 16.  rocks in pi●●es fly.  
That Heart is harder, worse than Rock or Stone,  
Which Christ's Death cannot rent, nor cause to moan.  
Yea every 
y Ezech. 22. 14. c. 36. 26. c. 11. 19 Luk. 24. 32. Isa. 13. 7. Ezech. 21. 7. Jer. 23. 29.  rocky Heart must melt, 〈◊〉, fall  
In pieces, when Christ shall it shake, smite, call  
By his Almighty Hand, or voice which make  
The hardest 
z 1 King 19 11. Josh. 2. 11. Amos. 9 13. Nah. 15. 6.  rocks and Hearts to melt, split, shake.  
Lord let the Thoughts of thy Death quite relent  
Our rocky Hearts, and move them to repent.   

33.  
Rocks 
a Job. 6. 12. c. 14. 24.  seldom rot, corrupt, or putrify:  

b Act. 2. 24. 31. c. 13. 34. 35. 36. 37. Psal. 16. 10.  Christ rotted not, whilst he in Grave did lie;  
That so he might our rotten corpse thence 
c 1 Cor. 15. 42. 43. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. Phi. 3. 21.  raise  
Free from corruption, Him for aye to praise.  
O fear not then, though we return to dust,  
Christ at the last 
d Rom. 6. 9 10. 1 Cor. 15. 42. 43. 52. to 57  will scour off all our Rust,  
Dross, and Corruption; and our corpse restore  
To such a State, that it shall die no more;  
But live in endless Glory, and excel  
The 
e Joh. 13. 2. Phil. 3. 21. Mat. 13. 43. Dan. 12. 3.  shining rays, which in stars, moon, sun, dwell.   

34.  
rocks though they drowned be, appear again,  
And fixed in their Places still remain:  
So Christ, though Dead, and laid in Grave, arose  
Again the 
f Mar. 26. 6. 7. Mar. 16. 6. 1 Cor. 15. 4. 5. 6. 12. to 23.  third day, yea to heaven up goes,  
Above the reach of floods; where he on high  
Hath fixed his Throne for all 
g Heb. 1. 8. 12. Psal. 145. 13. 2 Pet. 1. 11.  Eternity.  
Here shall this everliving raised rock  
For ever 
h Rev. 22. 5.  reign amidst his chosen flock.   

35.  
Our rock Christ being dead entombed lay  
Within a 
i Mar. 15. 46. 47. Mat. 27. 60. Luk. 23. 53.  rock; where He grim death did slay.  
We, Dust and Earth, when dead, to 
k Gen. 3. 19 Eccles. 3. 10.  them return:  
But our dead rock, a rock had for his urn,  
Which Him received, and harboured even when,  
He slain, and quite 
l Isa. 53. 3. 14 c. 4. 11.  rejected was by Men.  
O rocks of Flesh, and Bowels, which first 
m Mat. 27. 51.  rent  
Themselves, His bloody Passion to Lament!  
And then Him in their bosom's lodge, and placed,  
When men Him slew, forsook, and most disgraced!  
O men (more 
n Jer. 5. 3. Ezech. 3. 5.  hard than any rock, Flint, Stone,  
Who never, pity, feel, regard, bemoan  
Christ's cruel Death and Passion; nor receive  
Him, when the Rocks rent, and Him houseroom give!  
O let us learn from hence, how hard, unkind,  
Ingrate we are to Him, who still shall 
o Joh. 1. 10. 11. Mat. 8. 20. Luk. 9 58. Job 24. 7. 8.  find  
More pity, harbour, love, from rocks than we,  
until our Hearts by Grace relented be.  
And let this Thought our Hearts of rock now thaw,  
And Floods of bitter tears out from them draw.   

36.  
In fine; when we consider that 
p Mar. 15. 46. 47. c. 16. 1. 2. 3. Mat. 27. 60. c. 28. 5. 6. Luk. 23. 53. c. 24. 6. 7. Joh. 19 41. 42. c. 20. 1. to 26.  Christ lay  
entombed in a rock; yet the third day  
Rose up from thence: it makes each Hole and Cave  
We see in rocks, no other but a Grave:  
And points us out the 
q Job. 17. 1. 13. Psal. 88 3. 5.  Place where we must lie  
Inter'd, ere long, and fits us still to 
r 2 Tim. 4. 6. 7. 8. 1 Cor. 15. 31.  die;  
Which done, it then revives our souls again  
With this sweet Thought, that we 
s Psal. 19 9 1● Act. 2. 32. c. 13. 33. 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes. 4. 14. to 18. 2 Cor. 4. 14. Rom. 8. 11.  shall not remain  
In Gr●ve for ever; since our Saviour rose  
From thence again, to raise us, and all those  
Who are his Members, from the Dust, to 
t Rev. 22. 5.  reign  
In endless bliss, where he doth now remain.  
Let these sweet Speculations ever cheer  
Our drooping souls, and banish all their fear.  
Thus Barren rocks unto a pious mind  
May fruitful prove, it it 
v 1 Cor. 10. 4.  Christ in them find;  
When they in Name and Nature thus express  
Unto the life, with fruit and pleasantness;  
Far better than all Pictures which the blind,  
Dull Papists make, to bring them to their mind,  
As if His 
x 1 Cor. 11. 25. 26. 29. Gal. 3. 1. 1 Cor 2. 2. Rom. 1. 19 2●.  Word, works, Sacraments, yea, 
y Gen. 1. 26. 27. c. 3. 1. c. 9 6. 1 Cor. 11. 7. Eph. 4 24. Col. 3. 1●. Heb. 1. 3. c. 2. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 17. P●●l. 2. 7. 8. 1 Joh. 3 2. Joh. 1. 14 ●  Man  
The truest, best idea that we can  
Have of Him) with each rock, Stone they espy  
Were not enough to show him to their eye,  
Without those Idols, which have thrust aside  
These better Pictures, and Christ from them hide.   

38.  
Blessed Lord Jesus who the 
z Psal. ●2. 2. 5. 7. Psal. ●4. 22. Ps. 18 2. 31. 1 Cor. 10. 4.  only rock,  
And Refuge art of thine Elected flock,  
Teach us thus sweetly to behold, and view  
Thee in each rock we see; for to renew,  
Melt, change, delight, rejoice our Hearts, & make  
Them out of love to Thee, all else 
a Lu. 14. 33. Mar. 10. 28. 29. Psa. 73. 25.  forsake:  
Still 
b Rom. ●4. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 8.  living, cleaving, dying unto Thee  
The only rock, where they full safe shall be.    

Meditations of the second kind, comparing rocks and sins together.  
Again, Me thinks, the rocks do typify, the nature of those sins which in us lie.  

1.  
For first, all rocks exceeding 
c Pro. 27. 3. Zech. 12. 3. Isa. 32. 2.  heavy are,  
To those who them upon their shoulders bear:  
Yet Light, not ponderous to their proper place:  
So, to all Hearts renewed with saving Grace  
All sins more 
d Ps. 38. 4. 5. Job 6. 3. 4. M●t. 11. 28.  heavy than rocks are, and seem;  
Though stony hearts them light and easy deem. 
e Zech. 12. 3. Dan. 2. 34. 35. Prov. 27. 3. 21. Chron. 25. 12. Ps. 137. 9 Eccl. 10. 9 Josh. 10. 11.    

2.  
Rocks press and bruise Them sore on whom they lie,  
And for mere anguish make them roar and Cry.  
sins do foe too; when God doth once awake  
men's souls, their Pressure makes them 
f Psal. 38. 1. to 11. Ps. 32. 3. Ps. 22. 1. Joh. 3. 24. Ps. 88 1. 2 3.  roar and quake.  
O then beware of sins, which 
g Mat. 11. 28. Psal. 38. 8. 2 Sam. 24. 14.  bruise, oppress  
Our souls, and work nought else but their distress.  
Rocks sink, and bend still 
h Exod. 15. 5. Neh. 7. 11. Jer. 51. 63. 64.  down wards: Sins do so,  
Tending to 
i Psal. 9 17. Psal. 55. 15. Pro. 5. 5. 2 Pet. 2. 14. Isa. 24. 24.  Hell the Place to which they go:  
Each day they sink men lower than they were,  
Till by degrees they them to Hell down-bear.  
Oh then betimes shake off these 
k Heb. 12. 1. Amos 2. 13. Rev. 18. 21.  weights, which press  
And sink our souls to Hell, without redress.   

4.  
Rocks 
l Exod. 1●. 16. 1 Sam. 25. 35.  cold, hard, dead and senseless are; 
m Heb. 3. 13. Ezech. 3. 7. Ephes. 2. 1. 2. c. 4. 18. 19  Sins make  
All such, within whose Hearts they Lodgings take:  
Beware then how such Guests we entertain,  
By which our souls are deadened, hurt and slain.   

5. 
2 Chro. 25. 12. Isa. 8. 14. 15. Psal. 14●. 6. Zech. 12. 3.   
Rocks make men oft to stumble, slip, and fall;  
And break their Bones, Limbs, necks, oft times withal:  
Sins 
o Isa. 8. 15. Jer. 18. 15. Isa. 24. 20. Jer. 8. 4 12. c. 25. 27. c. 50. 32.  do the like. If then we would be free  
From Slips and Break-neck-falls, we must them flee.   

6.  
rocks are 
p Isa. 2. 21.  deformed, horrid, barren, vile;  
And so are 
q Isa. 64. 6. Ezech. 16. 3. to 40. Pro. 13 5. Gen. 49. 4.  sins, with all whom they defile.  
These make Men ugly, filthy, sterile, base,  
And all their Glory, Beauty quite deface;  
Yea, change them into 
r Ezech. 21. 25. c. 22. 27.  Monsters, wolves, dogs, swine;  
Nay 
s Joh. 6. 70. 71. c. 8. 44. Act. 20. 29. 2 Pet. 2. 22. Rev. 22. 15.  Fiends incarnate. O than sins decline!   

7.  
Where 
t Exod. 15. 16. Job 18. 4. c. 28. 9  rocks once fix their Stations, they remain;  
And none but God can move them thence again:  
So Sins once settled in men's Hearts, there 
v Jer. 13. 23. Rom. 7. 18. to 25. Zeph. 12. Jude 10. 11. 12. 13.  stand  
East ●entred, till God's own Almighty hand  
expel them thence. O then let no sins lie  
Upon our souls, but out them presently,  
Lest they should 
x Heb. 3. 12. 13. Eph. I. 1. 2. 3. c. 4. 18. 19 Rom. 1. 23. to 29.  settle; for if once they rest  
Within them, they are hardly dispossessed.   

8.  
Rocks are 
y Jer. 5. 3. Mat. 7. 25. 26. Job 41. 24.  exceeding hard to batter, break,  
Mine, pierce, demolish. So let all Men speak,  
And they must say, that 
z Jer. 13. 23. Ephes. 1. 19 20. 1 Cor. 9 27. Rom. 7. 18. to 25. Heb. 12. 1.  all sins are so too,  
We ruin, break them still with much ado.  
He who doth think his sins with ease to quell,  
Shall never tame, nor from him them expel.   

9  
rocks make their Dwellers 
a Obad. 3. 4. Jer. 21. 13. c. 49. 16.  fearless, and secure  
Of Foes or Perils, and to think all sure:  
Sins 
b Job 12. 6. Isa. 28. 15. 18. Deut. 29. 19 20 Judg. 18. 7. 10. 17. Ezech. 29. 2. to 12.  do the like to those that in them dwell;  
Who fear no dangers till they sink to bell.  
O then beware lest sins make us secure.  
No State's so ill, as that which seems most sure!   

10.  
All rocks are 
c Jer. 5. 3.  blushless, shameless, impudent;  
sins are so too, nought can then daunt, relent.  
And by degrees men's Hearts, brows they so 
d Jer. 3. 3. c. 6. 15. c. 8. 12. Ezech. 2. 4. c. 3. 7. Heb. 3. 13.  steel  
That they no sin, Blush, shame, disgrace can feel.  
Take ●eede then lest sin, first, us shameless make,  
Then senseless, graceless, fit for hell's dread Lake.   

11.  
Rocks, stones 
e 2 King. 3. 19 25.  good grounds oft spoil, and quite deface:  
So 
f Ezech. ●8. 24. 26.  sins good men deprave, mar sham●, disgrace.   

12.  
rocks, Stones in fertile soils them 
g Isa. 5. 2. 2 King. 53. 19 25. Mat. 13. 5. Mar. 4. 5. 6. Lu. 8. 6. 7.  barren make;  
And nought will spring, or grow there, till men take  
Them thence: So rocks and Stones of sin decay,  
And make Men 
h 1 Pet. 2. 1. 2. Jam. 4. 1. to 12.  fruitless till removed away.  
No fruits of Grace will ever grow, or sprout  
Up in them, till these Stones be digged out.   

13.  
Great rocks 
i Ezech. 24. 7. 8. Rev. 6. 15. 16. Numb. 23. 9  apparent are to each man's eye,  
And all both far and near may them espy.  
Great sins in all, in 
k 2 Sam. 12. 10. 11. 12. 14. Exech. 16. 36. 37. 38. Isa. 3. 9  Great men specially,  
Themselves to all both far and near descry;  
Whence 
l Ezech. 24. 7. 8.  Scripture faith, they are on rocks Tops set,  
And do in 
m 1 King. 13. & 14. & 16.  others worlds of sins beget.  
Let all, but Great ones chiefly, all sins fly;  
Which though kept close, will yet 
n 2 Sam. 12 1. 12. Psa. 90. 8 Eccles. 12. 14. Ma●. 4. 22.  themselves descry.   

14.  
Wild 
o 1 Sam. 24. 2. Job. 39 1.  goats in rocks feed, live, and much delight:  
So, wicked Men, styled 
p Mat. 25. 32. 33.  goats both day and night  
In 
q Eph. 2. 1. 2. 3. c. 4. 19 Rom. 1. 27. to 32. 1 Joh. 5. 19 2 Pet. 2. 13. to 22.  sins and lusts do wallow, live and joy;  
Though they their souls at last will quite destroy▪  
O madness! thus in sins to take delight;  
Which against God, soul, Body, always 
r 1 Pet. 2. 11. Act. 5. 39 c. 23. 9  fight.   

15.  
The steep high rocks, and Forts which on them stand  
Are never 
s Jer. 39 1. 2▪ 3. Ezech. 29. 18.  sealed, or won but by strong hand;  
Much pains, Long siege, or Famine, which do pine,  
Or starve their Men, and cause them to resign.  
The steep, high, craggy rocks and Forts of sin  
Within us, none can ever 
t 1 Cor. 9 2●. Rom. 7. 18 to 25. Mat. 17. 2●. Luk. 2. 37. 1 Cor. 7. 5. 2 Cor. 6. 5. c. 11. 27.  S●ale, force, win,  
But by strong hand, much cost, pains, sweat, strife, care,  
Long siege, and Fasts, by which they starved are,  
And forced at last for very want to yield,  
Where else they would have made us leave the field.  
It's then no easy thing to conquer sin:  
They must bestir them who its Forts would win.   

16.  
Rocks, 
v Act. 27. 29.  wreck, sink, break Ships, boats: So Sins oft 
x ● Tim. 6. 9 Rev. ●1. 18.  split  
And drown those souls which on them dash or hit;  
Not in Sea-waters, but in Lakes of fire,  
Where they shall ever feel God's scorching Ire.   

17.  
Instruct us then, O Christ, our rock, to shun  
All sins as rocks, and not on them to run,  
For fear of ruin, and still give us Grace  
To fly these rocks of sin in every place,  
With greater care than 
y Act. 27. 29.  seamen do● avoid  
Those noted rocks, which thousands have destroyed;  
Not once presuming to approach or hit  
Against such rocks, as others souls have split.  
And since sunk rocks of 
z Psa. 19 12. Job 34. 32.  secret sins that lie  
Hid in our Hearts, and 
a Jam. 5. 1. 5. Isa. 22. 12. 13. 14. c. 5. 12. 13. 14. c. ●7. 7. 8. 9 Zeph. 2. 15. Job. 21. 10 12. 13. Amos. 6. 3. to 8. c. 8. 10.  worldly ●●●●ity,  
Mirth, Pastimes, Pleasures, (whe●e we le●st suspect,  
Or fear a danger) most souls still have wre●kt;  
Teach us these Rocks to see, and then to fly  
With chiefest care, and them not to come nigh.  
Yea, sith no Sea so fraught with rocks can be,  
As this whereon our souls sail towards Thee:  
O Shield us from these Rocks by thy great Power,  
Which else will Split and sink us every hour:  
That so we may at last arrive secure  
In Heaven's blessed Port, where joys for aye endure.    

Meditations of the third Sort, suiting rocks, and God's Elect together.  

BEsides, these rocks present before our Eyes  
The State of God's Elect, in lively wise.   

1.  
Rocks fixed are, not tossed to and fro,  
With every wind, storm, Tempest: Even so 
(b) Job 18. 4. Mat. 7. 25. 26.   
God's Chosen sheep with 
c Rom. 8. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39  firm and stable Hearts  
Adhere to Him in all their Troubles, Smarts:  
No storms, winds, Crosses, Changes can remove  
Them from his Word, son, Spirit, Truth or Love:  
When 
d Joh. 6. 66. 67. 68 2 Pet. 1. 10. 11.  troops of others shrink, and fall away,  
They cleave to him as to their only Stay.   

2.  
Rocks many 
e Mat. 7. 25. 26.  Winds, storms, Tempests undergo:  
And do not all the 
f Psal. 34 13. Act. 23. 22. Psa. 73. 14.  Saints, whiles here, do so?   

3.  
rocks meekly bear and suffer storms that fall,  
And never fret, rage, or repine at all:  
God's 
g Psal. 39 2. 9 1 Sam. 3. 8. 2 Sam. 15. 25. 26. 27. c. 18. 4. to 14.  Saints without all murmur, fret, or cry  
Their Crosses, Losses bear most quietly;  
Submitting unto God, whose Providence  
All bitter Potions doth to them dispense.   

4.  
All men on 
h Mat. 7. 25. 26.  rocks may safely build and rest:  
And of all trusty friends, the Saints are best.  
On 
i 3 Ioh. ●. 6. Prov. 17. 17. c. 18. 24. Joh. 15. 13.  whom we may all times with trust rely,  
And to them in all Dangers safely fly.   

5.  
Rocks 
k Isa. 2. 21. Ezech. 26. 4.  bare and ragged are: The Saints oft 
l Psa. 37, 26. Jam. 2. 5. 1 Cor. 4●. ●●. 1. 12. c. 16. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 6. 10. c. 8. 2. 4. Rom. 15. 26.  poor,  
In outward State; but seldom beg at door.   

6.  
Yet though rocks Outsides be but base and rude,  
They richest Mines within their wombs include:  
So though Saints Outsides be but ragged, base,  
Within them 
m Jam. 2. 5. Psal. 45. 13. Ephes. 3. 19 Phil. 1. 11. Col. 1. 9 10. 11. Heb. 11. 37. 38.  hidden lie gold-Mines of Grace.   

7.  
Stone● digged out of rocks and hewed square  
The 
n 1 King. 5. 17. 18. c. 6. 7. 8. c. 7. 3. 10. 11. 2 Chron. 2. & 3. 2 King. 12. 12. Ezech. 40. 42.  fairest Temples, Buildings make that are.  
So God's Elect, though vile while that they lie  
In nature's Quarries in deformity;  
Yet hew'de out thence, squared, polished by God's Grace,  
And laid in order in their proper Place,  
Become 
o Psal. 14, 4. 12. Isa. 11. 11. 12. 1 Cor. 3. 16. 17. 2 Cor. 6. 16. Ephes. 2. 21.  rich Temples wherein God doth dwell,  
And do all other structures far excel,  
In worth, and glory: Lord thus square, and lay  
Us in these Sacred walls, which last for aye.   

8.  
rocks for the most part lowly are and meek:  
The 
p Psa. 131. 1. 2. 3. Col. 3. 1. 2. 3. Heb. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 24. 25. 26. 35. 36. 37. 38. 2 Cor. 4. 9 to 13.  Saints are so, and no high places seek;  
In this vain world; where they dejected lie  
Till God advance them to the starry sky.   

9  
Rocks kingdoms, Islands guard and fortify  
'Gainst raging Seas, Floods, storms, and enemy:  

q Exod. 32. 11. to 15. Jam. 5. 16. 17. 18. 2 King. 2. 12. c. 6. 9 to 24. c. 8. 9 c. 2●. 6. Gen. 28. 23. to 25. Act. 27. 24. 2 King. 13. 14. 23.  Saints holy Lives, and frequent Prayers are  
States surest Guards; Forts, both in Peace and war;  
These Shield-off Judgements, Foes, Plagues, yea God's Ire,  
Which else would wast, and scorch them worse than Fire.   

10.  
Rocks from their Sides send forth 
r Numb. 20. 10. 11. 12. Deut. 8. 15. Psal. 105. 41.  Springs sweet and pure,  
Men's Thirst to quench, their wounds and sores to cure:  
And who but Christ and Saints can 
s Isa. 61. 1. c. 4●. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 1, 4. 5.  Comfort bring  
To sin-sick souls, and those who feel the Sting  
Gripes, Torments, Flames of Hell and Conscience?  
Or bind up broken, hearts, and chase from thence  
All fears and horrid Terrors? Which an Hell  
On Earth oft make in those wherein they dwell?  
Hence all such wounded souls do ever fly  
To 
t 2 Cor. 1. 4. 5. 6. Act. 9 10. to 20.  these for Comfort in extremity:  
Since no ungodly wretch can cheer, or ease  
A sin-sick soul, nor aching Heart appease.   

11.  
rocks most despised and neglected are,  
As worthless Creatures: Thus God's Saints oft fare  

v 1 Cor. 4. 9 to 13. Heb. 11. 36. 37. 38. Mal. 3. 14. to 18.  contemned, abhorred of Most, as vile and base,  
Though of mankind the only pearls, stars, Grace.   

12.  
Rocks hurt no ships, boats, Men, but such as 
x Act. 27. 29.  hit  
Themselves against them; and so break or split:  
So God's Elect do never hurt, break, quash  
Any, but those who 
y 1 King. 13. 4. 6. Act. 9 4. 5.  wilfully run, dash,  
Bruise, break themselves against them; who must check  
And blame themselves, not them, for this their wreck.   

13.  
God first ingraved his Sacred laws upon  
A Marble rock 
z Exod. 24. 12. c. 31. 18. c. 34. 29. Deut. 4. 13. c. 5. ●2. c. 9 10. 11. 15. 17.  a Table made of Stone;  
Not brittle glass, soft Paper; that they might  
Out last all time: God, still, his laws doth write  
On hardest rocks; Saints stable 
a Jer. 31. 33. 2 Cor 3. 3.  Hearts, whereby  
They Time survive, and gain eternity.  
The two first Stony Tables whereupon  
God stamped his laws, broke, lost were long agone:  
These harder Tables of Saints Hearts remain,  
And in them God's blessed laws for aye retain.  
Lord, I my heart a 
b Ezech. 11. 19 c. 36. 26.  rock have made: O carve  
Therein thy laws, from which it may not swerve  
And since it shall out-dure the firmest rock,  
O, this rich treasure ever in it lock!  
Yea, make each Saints Stone-Heart the Treasury  
Of thy sweet laws, for all eternity.   

14.  
rocks in most places thinly scattered are;  
Saints in all places are most 
c Luk. 13 23. 24. Isa. 17. 6.  thin and rare.  

d 1 Pet. 1. 1. 2. Heb. 11. 36. 37.  Dispersed here and there, where hid they lie  
In secret Corners in obscurity;  
Driven from Country, Lands, House, Home, by those  
Who for their 
e Psal. 38. 20.  goodness only are their Foes.   

15.  
Rocks burnt to 
f Isa 33. 12.  Lime, do fasten, join, cement  
Stones in all Buildings, and them free from rent:  
Yea; laid on barren Grounds where nought would spring,  
They make them fertile, and great Crops to bring:  
So God's Elect, when melted by the Flame  
Of his sweet Spirit, 
g Eph. 4. 3. to 17. Rom. 15 5. 6. 7 c. 16. 17. 18. 1 Cor. 1. 10. 11. 12. 13. c. 12 4. to 3●. Phil. 1. 27. 28. Jud. 3. 4. Rev. 2. 14.  knit, unite the Frame  
And Stones of his Church here on Earth together,  
And keep out errors, Sects that would it sever:  
Yea, sent to barren soils where grew no Grace,  
They make them 
h Act. 26. 17. 18. Rom. 1. 13. c. 15. 18. 19 20. Col. 1. 6  fruitful, and in better case.   

16.  
Rocks cut and polished, turn to richest Gems  
Become Kings Treasures, 
i Zech. 9 16. 2 Sam. 12. 30.  crown their Diadems.  
Saints squared and polished from their dross by Grace,  
Prove God's rich 
k Mal. 3. 17.  Jewels, in his crown have place.  
Lord so refine me that I may be set,  
A Stone, pearl, Jewel in thy Coroner.  
Amidst those Saints which thou reput'st such Gems  
As far excel, outshine all Diadems.   

Sweet Jesus make me of thy Chosen flock,  
That I, like them, may be a blessed rock.    

Meditations of the fourth class, sampling rocks, and rocky Hearts, with ungodly Men, together.  

YEt more, me thinks rocks represent to all  
Man's rocky Heart, and Nature, since the fall,  
In some Respects, wherein they well agree  
With Stony Hearts; from which God make us free.   

1.  
rocks are exceeding 
l Jer. 5. 3.  shameless, Impudent,  
Nought will them daunt, or cause for to relents  
So men of Stony Hearts, have 
m Jer. 3. 3. c. 5. 3. c. 8. 12. Ezech. 2. 4. c. 3. 7.  brows of S●●●●●,  
Faces of rock, which no blush, shame can feel.  
No shameful sin, Convictions, or Disgrace  
Will daunt, or cause them once to hide the Face.  
It is their 
n Phil. 3. 19  glory to be void of shame,  
And vaunt of that which doth them most defame.   

2.  
Rocks show no mercy, but to 
o Josh. 10. 10. Judg. 9 53. 54. Zech. 12. 3. Luk. 13. 4. 2 Chron. 25. 12.  pieces maul,  
break, bruise, or hurt, all those on whom they fall.  
So men of rocky hearts are 
p 2 King. 8: 12. 13. Gen. 5. 7. Psal. 71. 4. Prov. 12. 10. Jer. 6. 23. c. 50. 42. Psal. 27. 12. Ezech. 34. 4.  merciless,  
And break, bruise, tear, crush, all they do oppress.  
No Cries, Parts, virtues, Merits can assuage  
Their cruel Projects, nor divert their Rage.  
O let me rather fall into the paws  
Of 
q Prov. 17. 12.  bears or lions, than an hard Hearts James.   

3.  
Rocks make those 
r Isa. 47. 2.  millstones which do grind, bruise, tear  
The corn we use, to make us Bread, or beer:  
So men of rocky Hearts still serve to 
s Exod 1. 12. c. 4. Isa. 3. 15.  grind,  
press, bruise God's Chosen, till they be refined  
From all their husks of sin, and made meet Food  
For God's sweet palate, to their greatest Good.   

4.  
Some rocks burnt in the furnace harder grow;  
And nought but 
t Deut. 8. 9 Job 28. 2.  St●ele, or Iron from them flow:  
Which serves to break, hew, polish, fit, and square  
Rude rocks and Stones, and Stately piles to rear:  
God's ferry furnace rocky Hearts makes more  

v Isa. 1. 5. 6. 2 Chro. 28. 22. 23.  Hard, and obdurate than they were before;  
Yea all its scorching heat the which they feel,  
Serves but to turn them into harder steel,  
Or Iron; for to break, hew, polish, pare  
The rocks and Stones which God lays in the rare  
And choicest Buildings of his Church: whose walls  
Are 
x Exod. 1. 12. c. 4.  built, not razed, with these hard Iron Malls.  
And tools of steel, though they no 
y Act. 8. 21.  Part nor share  
Have in the Temples which they help to rear.   

5.  
The most mischievous Instruments of war  
Wounds, Bloodshed, first from 
z Job 28. 2. Deut. 8. 9  rocks extracted are;  
As Canons, muskets, Bullets, Sword, Bills, spears  
With other weapons, where with Man kills, tears,  
Torments, maims, Stabs his Brother in despite,  
As if he did in nought but Blood delight:  
So from men's Stony 
a Mat: 15. 19 Gen. 6. 5. c. 8. 21. c. 27. 41.  Hearts first flow and spring  
All mischiefs, Murders, wars, sins, each ill thing:  
These were the Artists which did first invent  
Each bloody, murth'ring, warlike Instrument;  
The Shops in which they forged were, the arms  
That wield them still, & work a world of harms.  
O cursed Hearts of rock from whence do flow  
All evils, mischiefs, woes we hear, see, know!  
Lord free and ever keep us from such Hearts,  
Which are the Cause of all our sins, Ills, Smarts.   

6.  
Rocker make those in them 
b Obad. 3. 4. Jer. 21. 13. 14. c. 49. 16.  careless, Proud, Secure  
From fear of Danger: Stony Hearts are sure  
To make all 
c Is. 47. 7. 89. 10. 11. c. 5. 19  such, in whom they a●e, and snare  
Them in great Mischieses ere they be aware.  
Rocks are 
d Job ●1. 24 J●r 23. 29. Nah. 1. 6. 〈◊〉. 1. 3.  exceeding Hard; and sooner broke  
Than squared or polished with the Axes stroke:  
men's Stony Hearts so hard and flinty are,  
That all Gods A●es, Judgements 
e 〈◊〉. 1● 2 Chron. 2●. 2●. Exod. 5 to 13. I●r. 5. 3. c 2. 30. Isa... 9 30 Amo. 4. 6. to 1● Rom. 2. 4. 5.  cannot square  
Them to his Rules, nor cause them to amend,  
And sooner break than rent, or make them bend.  
He who in hardest 
f Exo. 31. 1●. c 34. 1. 4. 29.  Stones of old impressed  
His Sacred laws, upon a rocky breast  
Cannot engrave them: Lord what Hearts of Flint  
Have Men, whereon thy laws can make no Print!  
Nought but child's blood these 
g Faech. 11. 19 c. 36. 26. Jer. 32 39  Adamants can thur  
And square then to the Models if God's Law   

8.  
No heat of sun or furnace rocks will melt,  
But harden rather, and their Heat's not felt:  
God's 
h Isa. 26 1●. 1●. c. 1. ●. c. 9 3●. Jer. 5. 3 2 Chro. 36 14. 15 16. Jer. 25. 3. to 15 c. 29. 1●. c. 32. 33. A●●●. 4. 6. to 13. Hos. ●●. ●. 5. Rom. 2. 4. 5.  sunshine Mercies, and his sweetest Grace;  
His fiery furnace, and his frowning fa●e,  
Men's rocky Hearts will neither warm, relent,  
Affect, melt, change, nor more them to repent.   

9  
Most Rock, 〈◊〉 
l Ezech. ●6. 4 Amos. 6. 12.  〈◊〉, yielding nought for Back  
Or Belly, that mankind or Beasts do lack:  
Men's 
k Ezech. 11. 19 Math. 13. 5. 6. 20. 21. Mar. 4. 5. Luke 8. 6.  St●ni● Heart● as Barren: no good Thing,  
No fruits of Grace, Faith, V●●●●● in it 〈◊〉.   

10.  
Thorns, Thistles, 
l Judg. 8. 7. 16.  Brambles, weeds of rock of● grow;  
All Stony Hearts with these, still 
m Heb. 6. 8. Rom. 1. 24 to 22. c. 2. 4. 5.  overflow;  
fruitful in nothing, but those 〈◊〉 of vice,  
And sin, which bar them out of Paradise.   

11.  
rocks deaf and senseless are of good, and ill:  
Hard 
n Ephes. 4. 18. 19 1 Tim. 4. 2. Proverb. 23. 35. Deut. 29 2. 3. 4. Isa. 6. 9 10. 2 Chron. 36. 15. 16.  Hearts are so, and neither can, do, will,  
God's Word, Law, works regard, hear, understand;  
Nor, fear his angry; kiss, his soothing hand.   

12.  
The fiereest storms, 
o Mat. 7. 25. 26.  Winds, Waves, on rocks do dash:  
God's 
p Deut. 28. 15. to 68 1. Sam. 5 7. 2. Chron. 21. 19 Ezech. 14. 21. Mich: 2. 10. Heb. 10. 29.  Sorest Judgements stony Hearts do lash:  
And though they seldom feel God's stroke or Curse;  
This nothing Mends, but 
q Ephes. 4. 18. 19 Rom. 2. 5.  makes their Case far worse.   

13.  
The pleasant showers, Drops, dews that on rocks light.  
Make them not fruitful, nor in better plight:  
But glide away forthwith, not sinking down  
To make them Mellow, good, or sin to drown:  
So rocky 
r Heb. 6. 7. 8. c. 3. 13. 8. Mat. 13. 5. 6. Isa. 28. 10. 13. 2 Chro. 36. 15. 16 Jer. 23. 34. c. 35. 15.  Hearty, though they receive the rain,  
And frequent flowers of God, blessed Word; remain  
Still Barren, Hard, and senseless; nought will stay  
That drops upon them, but all slides away  
That's Good or Sacred; only floods of 
s Joh 15. 16.  sin,  
sink down with speed, and freely enter in.   

14.  
None craggy 
t Luk. 8. 6. 13. Amos. 6. 12.  rocks will Till, Plough, Plant, or Saw;  
Their Labours lost who do it, nought will grow.  
Obdurate Hearts few use to Plough or Till  
With Godly Precepts, counsels; sith they still  

v 2 Chron. 36. 15. 16. Jer. 13. 3. 4. Mar. 7. 6. Prov. 9 7. 8.  Neglect, deride, contemn them; so at all  
The seed is lost which on the rocks doth fall.   

15.  
Rocks blunt, and hurt the edge of tools that smite,  
Or square them for good uses; yea in spite  
Their Chips and Shivers dash against the Eyes,  
Face, Shins of those that hew them. Lo the guise  
Of rocky Hearts, which 
x Pro. 9 7. 8. Mat. 7. 6. Prov. 15. 12. 1 King. 13. 4. c. 18. 17. 18. 2 Chron. 24. 19 20. 21. 22. c. 36. 15. 16. Mat. 23. 37. Gal. 4. 16.  hurt and malice those  
Who check their sins, and hate them as their Foes.  
Yea, let their Pastors in their Ministry  
But touch their Sores, into their Face they fly:  
So zealous are they for those sins, which end  
In hell, when they will not God's cause defend.  
O that our zeal for God were half so much  
As for our darling Crimes, when Men them touch:  
Then would we let them 
y Psal 141. 5. Psal. 139. 23. 24. Prov. 8. 9 c. 29. 25.  strike, wound, lance, yea Slay  
Our dearest sins; and thank, not them gainsay.   

16.  
Rocks Cold and heavy are, and 
z Job. 18. 4.  never move  
Out of their Places; nor mount up above  
unless perforce; and then they ever 
a Rev. 18. 21. Jer. 51. 63. 64. Neh. 9 11. Exod. 15. 5. 10 Matth. 18. 6. Mark. 9 42. Luk. 17. 2.  bend  
down to the centre; whence they did ascend  
So 
b Rom. 2. 4. 5. c. 1. 23. to 32. Ephe. 4. 18. 19 2 Pet. 2. 10. 21. 22.  rocky Hearts are Cold, and lumpish still  
To all that good is; prone to nought but Ill:  
No Love, heat, zeal to God within them flame;  
His Cause they'll not stir in for Love, nor Shame:  
Their Thoughts, Minds, Cares are fixed on 
c Phil. 3. 18. 19  things below,  
And never upwards soar to view, mind, know  
The things above; unless some 
d Isa. 26. 11. 16.  sudden fear  
Of Death, Hell, Danger up them screw or rear  
Against their Wills: which past, to Earth they hie  
With greater poise, and there still groveling lie.   

17.  
rocks 
e Hab. 2. 19  dumb and silent are: So Hearts of Stone  
For good Discourse have neither Tongue, nor Tone  
Sitting still 
f Isa. 56. 10. Job. 15. 3.  Mute like stones without voice, sense,  
When any fall to godly Conference.   

18.  
Rocks 
g Ezech. 26. 4.  bare and naked are; whence all may spy  
Their nakedness, and gross deformity.  
All Stony Hearts, are 
h Ezech. 16. 3. to 15. Rev. 17. 18.  naked, poor, and bare;  
Their bareness, vileness, wants exposed are  
To all men's view; till Christ's rich Robes of Grace  
cloth or adorn them, and these wants deface.   

19  
rocks liveless are; and Stony Hearts are 
i Mat. 8. 22. Joh. 5. 25. 19 Ephes. 2. 1. 5. c. 5. 14.  Dead;  
No life of Grace was ever in them bred:  
Yea, all who now draw breath, must shortly 
k 〈◊〉. ●. 9 27. Ps●●●9. 48.  die,  
(Who knows how soon) and dead as rocks shall lie.   

20.  
Rocks till by force they broken be, and slit,  

l 2 Chron. 2. 2. 18. 1 King. 5. 17. c. 7. 9 10. 12.  hewed, polished, for all Buildings are unfit:  
Thus rocky Hearts till God them 
m Ezech. 36. 26. Joel 2. 13. Hosea 6. 5.  rent, hew, square;  
To build his House, Church, Temple, useless are.   

21.  
Rocks make Men 
n Isa. 8. 14.  fall and stumble, to their pain  
And Hurt: That 
o Rom. 2. 5. Eph. 4. 18. 19  rocky Hearts do thus, 'tis plain;  
Since all our Slips, Falls, Bruises, sins proceed  
From Stony Hearts, which make us take no heed.   

22.  
rocks 
p Act. 27. 29.  shipwreck those, who do too near them sail;  
And sunken rocks to split Ships most prevail:  
Thus rocky Hearts unless we from them fly  
Will 
q Rom. 2. 4. 5. Ephes. 4. 18. 19 1 Tim. 6. 9  wrack us all; but yet especially  
When neither Felt, nor seen: for than we run  
With full-sail on them, and are quite undone.   

23.  
rocks feel no burdens, weights that on them lie;  
So rocky Hearts do never 
r Ephes. 4. 18. 19  sigh, groan, cry  
Under the Weights and burdens of their Crimes,  
(Though 
s Psal. 38. 4. Matth. 11. 28. Joh 6. 3.  heavier than the Sands a thousand times)  
And why? because they never feel their poise  
Till it them sink to Hell, and quite destroys.   

24.  
Not all the Men on Earth, with all their Art  
Can make one Rock, or Stone; much less an Heart;  
But only 
t Joh 1. 3  God himself: yet Men alone  
Are the 
v Psal 95. 8. Exod 8. 15.  Creators of all Hearts of Stone,  
Not God: O wonder, that Men should create  
Nought but Hard rocky Hearts which God doth hate:  
Such Hearts can none else but Men, Fathers call,  
Which sink still downwards, till to Hell they fall.   

25.  
O then when ever we a rock shall see,  
Let these thoughts to our minds recalled be:  
Yea, ponder what Old 
x Ezech. 11. 19 c. 36. 2●. Psal. 51. 10. 17.  rocky Hearts we have  
By sin and Nature: then New, soft Hearts crave,  
With fervent Prayers, groans, sighs, tears; so we  
Our Hearts of rock, to flesh transformed shall see.  
And if we find, feel, know by signs most sure  
Our hearts thus changed, and made soft, and pure;  
Let us forever in Word, deed, Life, Thought,  
extol and (y) praise Him who this Change hath wrought;  
Keeping a narrow 
z Act. 2. 40. 47. Eph. 3. 20. 21.  watch both night and day,  
Over our cheating Hearts; for fear lest the:  
Should by degrees freeze, or grow 
a Heb. 3. 13. c. 12. 1●. Pro. 4. 22.  hard again,  
Yea turn to rocks, and so for aye remain.   

26.  
Sweet Jesus 
b Ezech. 11. 19 c. 36. 26.  take our Stony Hearts away,  
And give us hearts of flesh, we humbly pray;  
And of all other Plagues, from us avert  
This as the greatest, an obdurate Heart.  
And since of all our Parts Thou dost require,  
seek, prize our 
c Prov. 23. 25.  Hearts most; grant us we desire  
Such broken, contrite tender Hearts, as may  
Delight Thee most; and never from Thee stray.  
Such Hearts Thou only canst 
d Psal. 51. 10. 17.  create, not we;  
Make our Hearts such; then happy shall we be.    

miscellany Meditations of the fifth kind.  

TO wind up all; rocks to our minds present  
Some other useful Thoughts, with great content.   

1.  
When we behold some 
e 2 Chro. 2. & 3. 1 King. 5. 17. 18. c. 6. 7. 8. c. ●. 3. 10. 11 2 King. 12. 12. c. 32 6.  Stones with tools and bars  
digged out of rocks, and taken from the Quarres;  
To build some Stately Church; whiles others stay  
Still there, unwrought; though quite as good as they:  
It minds us of that common rock wherein  
mankind corrupted lay, through Adam's sin:  
From whence God by 
f Psal 144. 12. Isa. 14. 11. 12. c. 51. 1. Rom. 9 11. to 31. c. 8. 29. 30. c. 11. 5. 6. 7. Ephes. 1. 4. 5. 11. c. 2. 4. to 22 c. Pet. 2. 4. 5. 6 7. 2 Thes. 2. 13. Mat. 24. 40. 4. c. 20. 16. Mal. 1. 2. 3. Ex. 33. 19 Jet. 18. 6. 2 Tim. 2. 9  Election and meet Grace  
Culls out some Stones (though few) which he doth place  
Within his church's Buildings; where they lie  
Fast joined to Christ, for all eternity:  
When as all others (though as good as they 
original or actual.   
And of the self same rock, Quar, lump, and Clay:)  
●ye still unpolished, in the rotten mass,  
And State of sin, until to Hell they pass;  
Without Injustice, since God's Grace is 
g Hos. 14. 4. Mat. 10. 14. Rom. 3. 24. c. 8. 32. c. 11. 5. 6.  free;  
And none but for 
h Math. 25. 4●. 42. 43. Mark. 16. 16. Psal. 51. 4. 5. L28am. 3. 59  some sin shall damned be.   

2.  
When I consider that all 
i Isa. 22. 16. Mark. 15. 46.  Tombestones, urns,  
And tombs, where Man, 
* Gen. 3. 19  mere Dust, to Dust returns;  
Are broken pieces of some rocks; I then  
Behold my tombstone, in each rock I ken:  
And say; lo here's the lasting Monument  
Wherein my Body must ere long be penned,  
And shut Close prisoner, till the 
k Joh. 5. 58. Rev. 20. 12. 13.  Judgement day,  
When all its Rust and Bolts shall fall away.  
Which Thought digested, makes me still amend  
My Life; and fits me always for mine End.  
Let all revolve it oft within their mind,  
And they shall Treasure, Honey in it find.   

3.  
When I behold some people dwell, live, lie  
In 
l Job 24. 8. Obad. 3. Jer. 48. 28.  Caves of rocks; I then think presently;  
He who a Cottage wants his Head to Hide,  
Shall find some rock, or Hole where to abide;  
In which he may sleep freer from fears, Foes,  
And Cares, than those whom Castles, Guards, enclose.  
What need we care then here for House or Home,  
If these should fail, yet rocks will give us room  
To Lodge and hide in: Here 
m 1 King. 17 1. 13. c. 19 9 11. 15. Heb. 11. 38. Gen. 19 3●. Judg. ●. 2. 1 Sam. 13. ●. c. 24. 2. 3. 4. 7. Exod. 33. 21. 22.  God's dearest Saints  
Have liv●d, and bid oft times without Complaints;  
And been more happy in these caved Stones  
Than greatest Monarchs in their royal Thrones.  
Repine not then though cliffs of Rocks should be  
Thine House or Home, sith there thou mayst be free,  
Safe, blessed, cheerful, and to God more nigh  
Than those who in the fairest palace lie.   

4.  
The precious Jewels 
n Prov. 2. 4. Job 3. 21. Mat. 14.44. Psal. ●●. 14. Col. 2. 3.  Treasures, Stones which are  
locked up and bid in coursest rocks, declare  
God's dearest Saints and Jewels common Case,  
And State on Earth: who thrust out with disgrace  
From House and Home, enforced are to fly  
To 
o 1 King 19 9 1●. 15. c. 17. 4. 13. 1 Sam. 13. 6. c. 24. 2. 3. 4. Heb 11. 38. 39  Cave● and Rocke●, where they imprisoned lie:  
Whence driven out again by bloody Foes  
(Like Gold or Jewels out of rocks;) they close  
And lock them up again in 
p Psal. 88 8. Jer. 31. 2. c. 33. 1. c. 3●. 5. c. 39 15. Luk. 3. 20. Act 5. 18. 21. c. 12. 4.  Prisons, goals  
Or nasty Dungeons, amidst filth, dust, 
* Bonne● Imprisoned the Martyrs in his coal-house in Queen Mary's days.  coals,  
The ●●mmon 
q Heb. 1●. 35. to 39  C●●kets where these gems, pearls lie  
Vnti●l 〈◊〉 Fl●mes them into Ashe● fry.  
Ye●●●●rag● Noble S●ules, whiles thus you fare  
It's a sure sign you pe●relesse 
r Mal. ●●● Isa ●● Exo 19 ●. Ps. ●●●. 4.  J●wels are,  
And God▪ choice Tre●●ure, since you under lock,  
Thus lie, ●ike Gold, Gems in some Casket, rock:  
And that you shall be 
s Psal. 8●. 6. 8. 18. Ca●●. ●. ●. 6. Jer 3●. 2 3. Act. 16. 23. 2● Heb. 11. 3●.  surest kept of any,  
Because kept closest, and not seen of many.  
The choicest Things Men ever closest 
t Cant. 4. ●. Psal. ●● 14. Mat 13. 44. Job 3. ●1. Prov▪ 2. 4. Col. 2. 3.  lock▪  
And Wolves run loose, whiles God doth 
v Ezech. 3●. 4. Joh. ●●. ●6.  fold his flock.   

5.  
rocks love to 
x Ezec. 26. 4. c. 24. 7. 8.  show, not hide their nakedness:  
Adam and Eve 
y Gen. 3. 7. 10. 11. 21. c. 9 22. 23.  blushed at their Naked dress  
When they beheld it, and did bide for shame,  
Till they with coats of figleaves veiled the same.  
Those wanton Females than that take delight,  
Their 
z Ezech. 16. 36. 37. Hosea 2. 2. 3. 4. 2 Cor. 5. 5. Revel. 3. 17. 18. c. 16. 15. Gen. 9 22. 23. Heb. 2. 15. Isa. 47. 3.  Naked Breasts, necks, arms, (like some strange sight)  
To show to others, without Blush or shame,  
In spite of God, Men, who them tax and blame:  
Are rather shameless rocks than Adam's Race;  
And for the most part void of sense, shame, Grace;  
If not of Honour, and true 
a Hosea 2. 2. 3. 4. Ezech. 16. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39 c. 23. 10. 11 18. 19 23.  chastity,  
Sith most is common which doth open lie.   

6.  
When we behold Men with much Danger, sweat,  
Paines, Trouble, vilest wrack to gather, get,  
And draw from Sea-Rockes, for to burn, or dress  
Their tilled Grounds, and mend their fruitfulness.  
Me thinks it should wring 
b Phil. 3. 18. 19  tears from us, to see  
What pains these take for Dung, whiles they and we  
Do not take half the Care, Paines, travel, Sw●et  
The richest Gems of Grace to dig, fetch, get  
From Christ our rock, which would not only cheer  
And warm our souls, and make them fruit to bear;  
But them 
c Rev. 3. 18. Psal. 45. 13. 14.  adorn, every, store in such wise,  
That they all else as vile Dung would despise.  
For shame then henceforth let us take 
d Luk. 13. 24 1 Cor. 9 25. 26. 27. 2 Pet. 1. 5. 10.  more pain  
These richest gems, than they base wrack to gain.   

7.  
When I a Rent or Clift in rocks espy,  
It minds me of the dreadful majesty,  
And mighty Power of our God which make  
The hardest 
e 1 King. 19 11. Nah. 1. 5. 6. Mat. 27. 51.  rocks for fear to split 
f Joel. 2. 12. 13. 10.  rent shake  
And duly pondered would in pieces tear  
Our rocky Hearts, & make them quake for fear   

8.  
When I behold Men, Tempests, Waves, rain, wind,  
Beat long on 
g Mat. 7. 25. 26.  rocks, and yet no entrance find:  
It makes me see what 
h Ezech. 11. 19 c. 36. 26.  rocky hearts we have  
At which though Christ (who seeks our souls to save)  
Doth daily 
i Rev. 3. 20. Isa. 53. 1. 3. Joh. 12. 37. 38 39 40. c. 1. 10. 11. Rom. 10. 21. Isa. 5. 1. to. 7. Jer. 25. 5. to 8. c. 29. 19  knock by his Word, Grace and Sp●rit,  
Saints, Preachers, Motions; and oft times them smite  
With sundry Judgements, Tempests, Seas, Malles, Winds  
To make them open, yet but 
k Jer. 2. 20. Isa. 1. 5. c. 3. 9 Jer. 5. 3. Amos 4. 6. to 13. Ps. 95. 8. 1●. Deut. 8. c. c. 29. 3. 4. 5. Josh. 5. 4. Heb. 3. 8. 9 17. 2 Chron. 36. 15. 16. Jet. 25. 4. to 8. c. 32. 33. 34.  seldom finds,  
Or makes an Entrance: nay though many years,  
He thus beats on them, yet no fruit appears:  
O Hearts more hard than any rock, Flint, Steel,  
Which all these strokes upon them never seel!  
O 
l 2 Pet. 3. 9 Rev. 1. 9 c▪ 3. 10. Rom. ●5. 5.  patient Jesus! who so long canst bear,  
With such hard hearts, which will not melt nor tear!   

9  
When I behold rocks, Stones, most ragged, base,  
Rude and deformed in their Native place,  

m 2 Chron. 2. & 3. 1 King. 5. and 6. & 7.  hewed out from thence, and polished by mankind  
turned into goodly Structures of each kind  
And made rich Statucs, 
n Zech. 9 16. 2 Sam 12. 30.  Jewels, Ouches, gems,  
Yea, set in Gold and royal Diadems.  
I thence conclude, that God with much more ease  
Speed, Art, can turn, when ever he shall please,  
The 
o Ezech. 36. 26. 1 Cor. 3. 16. 17. 2 Cor 6. 16. Ephes. 2. 21. Mal. 3. 17.  hardest, vilest, rocky Hearts that are  
Into rich Temples, Jewels, gems most rare;  
Yea set them in Christ's very royal crown  
Like precious stones unto their great renown.  
As he did 
p 1 Tim. 1. 13 14. 15. 16.  Paul, 
q 2 Chron. 33. 12. to 20.  Manasses, and all those  
Most glorious Saints which heaven doth now enclose.  
Let no man then though ne'er so mean, vile, base,  
Lewd, sinful, once despair of God's free Grace,  
Which in a moment can 
r Ephes. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. c. 3. 20. 21.  change and transtate  
Him from his wretched to a glorious state.   

10.  
When as I see the 
s Job 28. 10. Ps. 105. 41.  waters that do stream  
And gush from stony rocks, me thinks they seem  
A lively Image of those 
t 2 King. 20. 5. Job 16. 20. Lam. 2. 18. Jer. 9 1. 8. Juk. 7. 38. 44. Act. 20. 19 31. Mat. 26. 75.  tears that flow  
From rocky Hearts, when they once tender grow.  
Through God's sweet Grace and Spirit, which can melt  
The hardest Hearts to tears, and them relent  
As He did rocks of Old, whence 
v Psal. 105. 41. Exod. 17. 6 Numb. 20. 11. 12.  water gushed  
By streams when He them either smote or crushed.  
Blessed Lord Jesus, soften, break, relent  
Our Hearts of rock, and cause them to repent,  
And send forth streams, nay Floods of tears to wash,  
Our sins away, and all their force to quash.   

11.  

x Job 39 28. 29. Jer. 49. 16.  Eagles in lofty rocks still breed and lie,  
And from their tops their Prey far off espy:  
God's chosen Saints whom Scriptures oft compare  
To 
y Psa. 103. 5. Isa. 40. 13. Mat. 24. 28. Luk. 17. 37.  Eagles, upon Christ high mounted are:  
(The tallest rock) on whom they 
z Ephes. 2. 20.  build, lodge, stay,  
And thence they seek, find, take their sacred prey.  
Lord make our souls with eagle's wings to fly,  
To this sweet rock, and there to live and die.   

12.  
When I contemplate how rocks 
a Job. 28. 10. Psal. 104. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.  crystal Springs  
Which serve to moisten, soften other Things,  
Make trees, herbs, grass, plants, flowers spring and grow;  
And queneh the Thyestes of all things here below;  
Yet neither moisten, soften, fructify  
The rocks themselves, still barren, fruitless, dry:  
Me thinks I view in them some rocky Hearts,  
Endued with rare, rich, profitable Parts  
Of Art and Nature; which do good to many,  
Yet to their Owners good, they do not any.  
How many Preachers others help to save  
Yet 
b Mat. 22. 7. 1 Cor. 9 27.  damn themselves? and whiles they others gave  
The Food of life, have starved themselves to death:  
Others made Fertile, themselves barren Heath?  
How many 
c 2 Sam. 16. 23. c. 17. 23.  wise to teach, rule, counsel all  
Except themselves, and so through folly fall:  
It's hardly worth the Name of Good Art, Skill  
That betters others, makes the Owners Ill.   

13.  
When I espy rocks trampled on by all,  
Christ's and true Christians States, to mind I call.  

d Isa. 53. 2. 3. 4, Mar. 9 12. Psal. 1 18. 22. 1 Cor. 4. 9 10. 11. 12. 13. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 9 10. 11. c. 6. 4, to 11. Heb. 11. 36. 37. 38.  Trod under feet, with all contempt, spite, hate  
Throughout the world, and valued at no rate.  
Complain not then of any disrespect.  
No greater Honour than Ill men's neglect.   

14.  
Each vast, high-towring, massy rock we eye  
Presents to us the strength and potency  
Of that Almighty God, whose 
e Isa. 40. 12: 10 18. Psal. 89. 13.  Potent Hand  
Did in a moment, both by Sea and Land  
Raise up so many vast high Piles, and pack  
Such massy rocks on one another's back;  
Without an engine, by his 
f Psal. 148. 5.  Word alone,  
And them so strongly solder one to one  
That all the Art, Wit, Strength, in Man's to weak  
To raze these Mounts, and them in pieces break.  
We wonder much at 
* See Camden's Brittania. Willshire.  Stonedge, where there lie  
A few large stones, piled up not very high  
On one another's head, and think it strange,  
How men such ponderous Stones eould rear and range,  
In such a manner, though these great stones be  
But pygmies, pebbles to the rocks we see.  
How much more than with wonder and amaze  
Should we upon those massy high rocks gaze  
Which them so far in Bulk, weight, height exceed,  
And may true admiration in us breed  
Of God's Almighty Power, which could raise  
Such grand, rare, lasting Trophies to his praise.  
To which all Structures made by men do seem  
But molehills, atoms, and of no esteem.  
He who such heavy rocks could make, lift, rear,  

g Isa. 40. 12. 15.  Weigh, toss with ease, as if they feathers were;  
With greater ease can lift and elevate  
His humbled Saints out of their 
h Psa. 113. 7. 8. 1 Sam. 27. 8.  lowest State:  
And in an instant into 
i Psal. 2. 9 Psal. 107. 40.  shivers dash,  
All who with Him or Them presume to clash.   

15.  
When we discern the Sea, and Time to 
k Job. 14. 9  wear  
The very rocks, and them to waste, eat, tear;  
Think and contemplate then, how time, age, space  
All things consume, waste, weaken and deface;  
But chiefly Men, compact of 
l Gen. 3. 19 Eccles. 3. 10. c. 12. 7.  Dust, not stone  
Who fade like 
m Ps. 103. 14. 15. 16. Psa. 90. 5. 6. Isa. 4. 6. 7. 8. Job 14. 1. 2. Jam. 1. 10. 1 Pet 1. 24.  grass, are in a Moment gone.  
How can mere Dust and Ashes think to last,  
When time and age the hardest rocks do wast?   

16.  
Those who in lofty, fenced, steep rocks dwell  
Are 
n Obad. 3. ser. 49. 16. c. 21. 13.  haughty, proud, secure, and far excel  
Most others in these vices, slighting all,  
As if no mischief could upon them fall.  
Whence sudden Dangers, ruins them surprise  
(To quell their Pride) from those they most despise;  
Thus carnal Men advanced and fortified  
With potent Friends, wealth, Honours, swell with 
o Ezech. 28. 2. to 29. Isa. 47. 7. to 12. Rev. 18. 7. 8.  Pride;  
Deride all Dangers, Foes, grow so secure,  
As if their Props and stays should still endure.  
Whence God their Pride to punish and abate  
Casts them down headlong by some sudden Fate.  
Which should make all, but great men specially  
Beware of Pride, and gross Security,  
The sad 
p Prov. 16 18 Rev. 18. 7. 8.  forerunners of a certain fall,  
Which them and theirs will soon to pieces maul.   

17.  
When as we see Men with must cost and pain  
To Mine the Rocks, and Treasures thence to gain  
Of sundry Sorts; where with they much increase  
Their wealth, and make things meet for war and Peace:  
It forthwith minds us how with far more care,  
Cost, Paines, Sweat, Labour all who Christians are,  
Should daily 
q Prov. 2. 4. Col. 2. 2. 3. Mat. 13. 44.  Search, and Mynefor richer oar  
In Christ their rock; in whom there is such store  
Of peerless Mines, and Treasures of each kind  
As well content, yea 
r Ephes. 1. 23 Joh. 1. 16.  fill the vastest mind;  
And store all Christians with all Things they need  
In Peace and War, Life, death! Let this than breed  
A Resolution in us, still to Mine,  
And draw these Treasures from this Rock Divine.   

18.  
Whiles that we view Men rocks to smite, pierce, rent  
With Sledges, Axes, or like Instrument;  
We then should ponder, how we all each day  
Our blessed rock Christ Jesus 
s Amos 2. 13 Heb. 10. 29. c. 6. 6. 2 Pet. ●1. Rev. 1. 7.  smite, stab, slay  
A fresh with those accursed sins and Crimes  
wherewith we grieve, pierce, wound Him at all times:  
Which Thought should turn the Edge, and Point of all  
Our sins from Him; upon ourselves to maul  
break, wound our rocky hearts, because we rent,  
Abuse Christ thus; and cause us to repent.   

19  
When we espy rocks dart out sparks of fire  
When smote, or cut with tools of steel or I're:  
It sweetly minds us, how the Hand of God  
Smiting upon us with an 
t Psal. 2. 9 10. 11. 12. Isa. 26. 9 11. 16. Hos. 5. 15. 2 Chr. 33. 12. 13. 2 Cor. 8. 2. 1 Thes. 1. 6. 7. 1 Per. 1. 6. 7. 8. 9 Jam. 1. 2. 3. 12. c. 5. 13. Psal. 119. 67. 71. 75 107.  Iron Rod  
Should from our Hearts of rock extract and draw  
Such sacred sparks, yet flames as should them thaw,  
Purge all their dross away, and them inflame  
With a most ardent Love, unto his Name.  
Lord when thy Rod shall ever on us light,  
Let it such sparks, and Flames in us excite.   

20.  
Springs, Quarries, Mines in rocks, ne'er drawn quite dry;  
Present most sweetly to each mind and Eye  
The 
v Ephes. 3. 8. 10. 19 20. Joh. 1. 5. 16. Col. 2. ●. 8. 9 10.  inexhausted, boundless, endless Mines,  
Springs, Treasures, Stares, and vastest Magazines  
Of Grace and goodness, which enclosed lie,  
Within the bosom of the Deity.  
To feed, feast, fill, every, each hungry, poor,  
Sad, pined soul, with all their matchless store.  
The very thoughts whereof our Hearts should fill  
With sweetest Solace, and delight them still.   

21.  
When I perceive the smallest pebble 
x Exod. 15. 5. Neh. 9 11. Jet. 51. 63 64. Mat. 18. 6. Rev. 18. 21.  sink  
In Floods, as deep as greatest rocks; I think  
How smallest sins are deadly, and as well,  
As soon almost, as Great, sink Men to Hell.  
O then beware of all sins, since the small  
As well as great to 
y Rom 6. 23. c. 24. 25. Ec. 12. 18. Math. 12. 36. 37.  Hell thus ●●nd and fall.  
Let Papists talk of venial sins, I trow  
No sin is venial, when all sink so low.   

22.  
The worthless Rubbish in each rock exceeds,  
And hides the Mines and Precious stones it breeds:  
Yea, richest Mines have ever greater Store  
Of dross and off all, than refined oar.  
Which pondered, learns us, how each Place, 
z Mat. 7. 13. 14. c. 13. 3. to 51. Luk. 13. 23. 24. Rom. 10. 16. c. 11. 4. 5.  Church breeds  
More Bad than Good: that Good men's Ill, exceeds  
Their goodness: that the Bad, Good Men obscure  
As Rubbish hides, Surmounts the oar that's pure.  
Hence Multitude, and visibility  
Appear ill marks a church's Truth to try.   

23.  
When 
a Josh. 10. 11 Judg 9 53. 54. 2 Sam 11. 21. Zech. 12. 3. Luk. 13. 4.  rocks or Stones fall on Men, and them dash  
To pieces, or at least them bruise and quash:  
It minds us how our rock Christ 
b Isa. 8. 14. 15. Luk. 2. 34. Psa. 29. Rev. 2. 27. c. 19 15.  grindeth all  
To powder, upon whom be doth once fall.  
O then beware how we pull on our backs  
This massy rock which Men to pieces cracks.   

24.  

c Psal. 41. 2. Psal 61. 2.  rocks keep from sinking those who walk or Stand  
upon them, whiles such, who on Bogges, Floods, Sand  
do walk, 
d Psal. 40. 2. Psal. 69. 2. 14. Mat. 14. 30. Jer. 38. 6. 20.  rest, stay, sink down and mired are,  
Yea oft times drowned without special care.  
Hence may we learn that those who walk, rest, stay,  
Themselves on Christ (the surest rock) always  
Stand firm, safe, stable; never sinking down;  
Whiles those who on Bogges, Sands sink, stand, and drown.  
O let our feet on this rock still abide  
Then are we certain not to sink, fall, slide.   

25.  
Rocks those who dwell upon them fence, 
e Isa. 33 16.  defend,  
But those who Scale them, hurt, bruise and offend.  
So Christ our rock 
f Joh. 10. 11. 14. 27. 28. 29. 1 Pet. 1. 5. c. 4 19  protects his Chosen sheep  
Who rest upon Him, doth them safely keep.  
Yet hurts and breaks to 
g Luk. 2. 39 Mat. 21. 44 Ps. 2. 9 10.  pieces all such Foes,  
Who dare presume Him, and them to oppose.   

26.  
The sight of rocks, their 
h Isa. 2. 1●. 19 21. Rev. 6. 15. 16. 17. Luk. 23. 30. Hos. 10. 8.  Clists, Caves, Holes should Minds,  
All of the Day of Judgement, yet behind:  
So full of dreadful terror and Affright  
That 
i 1 King. 19 11. Nah. 1. 5. 6. Mat. 27. 51. Isa 64. 1. 2. 3. Psal. 97. 5. Amos 9 13. 2 Pet. 3. 10. 12. Judg. 5. 5.  Kings themselves, and men of greatest Might  
Shall quake and shake for very fear; and call  
unto the rocks and Hills on them to fall;  
And into Caves, H●les, cliffs of rocks shall fly  
To hide them from the W●ath, S●●ht, Maje●tie  
Of Christ our rock, before 〈…〉  
The rocks shall then melt, fill, quake, change their place.  
And all the 
k Isa. 2. 10. to 18. c. 5. 15. 16. 2 Thes. 1. 8. 9 Jude 14. 15.  Stout, proud, rocky Hearts of those  
Who did himself, Word, Grace, Saints here oppose.  
Shall be so daunted, stonisht, struck with fear  
And horror, that they 
l Psal. 1. 5. 1. Pet. 4. 18. Mat. 25. 3● 31. 32. 42. to 46. 2 Thos. 2. 8. 9 10. Dan. 12. 2. Joh. 5. 25. 29. Rev. 6. 14. 15. 16. 17. c. 20. 9 10. 12. 14. 15.  dare not once appear;  
Till dragged perforce before Christ's bar and Face,  
Where tried, convict, condemned; with all disgrace  
They shall be cast for all Eternity  
Into hell's fiery Flames, there still to fry.  
O let the terror of this dismal Day,  
(Which now draws near, and we should 
m Jam. 5. 7. 8. 9 Rev. 22. 20  mind always;)  
For ever scare us from all sin, and make  
Our Stony Hearts to melt, bleed, sigh, break, ache:  
And cause us now with speed to fly and hide  
Ourselves within the Holes of Christ's pierced side,  
Who shall us 
o 2 Cor 5. 10. 11. Rom. 14. 10. 11. 12. Rom. 2. 16. Psa. 143. 9  judge: and then we boldly may  

o Luk. 21. 28.  Lift up our Heads, and Hearts in that great Day  
With joyful cheer, when others hang them down;  
And eke receive a Rich, Large, Massy 
p 2 Cor. 4. 17. 2 Tim. 4. 8.  crown.  
Of endless Glory, in the Heavens high 
(q) Rev. 22. 4. 5.   
Where we shall reign for all Eternity.   

O Christ (our only rock) of thy free Grace  
Advance, and bring us to this blissful Place:  
And let each rock, Clist, Stone we henceforth see  
Instruct us thus, and bring us home to Thee.    

The Conclusion.  

With these sweet useful Thoughts, and thousands more  
The Barren rocks, our Hearts, and Minds may store  
When we behold them: and if nature's book,  
And rocks, whiles we upon them daily look,  
Can teach us Nothing which our Lives may mend,  
Or cause our Hearts, Minds, Thoughts up to ascend  
To Christ their Rock, God, and the Things above,  
Them to contemplate with the greatest Love;  
Our Hearts are rocky; We, quite void of Grace;  
And rocks than we, are yet in better Case.    
FINIS.